Martin Garbus is a founding partner of Frankfurt Garbus Kurnit Klein & Selz, PC. One of the country's leading trial lawyers, Mr. Garbus has tried complex commercial, intellectual property, estate, and criminal cases, as well as media cases in nearly every state in the country. He has appeared before the United States Supreme Court as well as the highest state and federal courts in numerous states on many occasions. His courtroom work has ranged from long jury trials in complex estate cases and securities cases to arbitrations and short bench trials.
He has represented most of the major book publishers, movies companies and media conglomerates in the United States and abroad in commercial and media actions. He has also represented major entities in new media, Internet companies, networks and cable television and radio industries, including Channel 4, PBS, Pearson and Penguin-Putnam Books in the United States and Australia, Fox and Warner Bros., and Michael Bloomberg and his business entities, in business transactions as well as litigations. As part of his communications and intellectual property practice, he has represented the publishers of Salman Rushdie and Henry Miller and has personally represented actors such as Spike Lee, Al Pacino, Richard Gere, and Robert Redford, and authors such as David Halberstam, as well as such well-known political dissidents such as Vaclav Havel, Nelson Mandela and Anatoly Sakharov. He has also served as a consultant on the media and communications in Canada, England, Australia, the former Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia, Poland and Hungary.
Martin Garbus is the author of three books about his commercial and criminal trials: Ready for the Defense and Traitors and Heroes, and Tough Talk: How I Fought For Writers, Comics, Bigots, and the American Way (published in August 1998 by Random House-Times Books) which deals with media problems on the Internet including copyright, trademark and libel. Mr. Garbus has taught law at Columbia and Yale universities. He is a frequent contributor to major newspapers and national magazines, including the New York Times, Washington Post and Los Angeles Times, and has been a commentator on current legal issues for NBC, ABC, CBS, Time and Newsweek. He is a graduate of Hunter College (BA, 1955), New York University (JD, 1959) and studied economics at Columbia University and studied tax law at New York University School of Law.
Monday November 11, 2002
12:30 - 2:00pm
Moot Court
Stanford University Law School
Lunch provided
All are welcome.